Air Fryer Sweet Potato Chips#MultiCookerMonday

Air Fryer Sweet Potato Chips are fried the healthy way. 
These can cook without the oil but they don't get crispy as they do with  a tad bit of oil and the seasonings stick much much better too.

Slice to the thickness that you like (the cooking time will vary accordingly). I used my v slicer to get them nice and thin.
Ingredients
2 Medium Sweet Potatoes - thinly sliced into roundel's
1 Teaspoon Olive oil
1 Teaspoons chili powder
1 Teaspoon Chaat Masala
½ Teaspoon Salt

Method

Thinly slice the sweet potatoes. 
Toss in a bowl with the oil so that each sweet potato slice is lightly coated. Use your hands to mix them well.
Mix the chaat masala, chili powder and salt into the bowl.
Sprinkle the seasoning mix over the sweet potatoes and toss so that each slice has seasoning on it. 

They are lightly coated as in the photo above.

Lay sweet potatoes in a single layer in the air fryer basket touching or overlapping a tiny bit. If you have a stirring arm in your air fryer that has to be removed.

Air Fry at 180°C for 15 - 18 minutes at depending on how thin your slices are. Mine was done 18 minutes.  Half way through the cooking time I turned the sides of the sweet potatoes or
shake the basket to get them off the air fryer bottom.

When done remove chips to a cooling rack and let them cool. They will get crispier as they cool.

Store in an airtight container.  Enjoy!!

I served them with Wasbi Prawn as an appetizer.

My Notes

After the Sweet Potato Chips chips have cooled, they get crispier. Store them in an airtight container. They stay good for 4 to 5 days.

If you want them more crisper than keep them for another 4 -5 minutes, keep check after 2 minutes or else they will burn.

Labels : Multi Cooker Monday, Sweet Potato, Chaat Masala, Chips, Snacks, Air Fryer, Red Chilly Powder, Gluten free, Healthy, Vegan, Appetizer, Side Dish, Paleo 

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Hung Curd Veggie Sandwich – Healthy Bite

This is an healthy sandwich, no cream or mayonnaise! Try this healthy hung curd sandwich with the goodness of veggies for your breakfast or brunch. It's quick, delicious and filling.
Makes 2 Sandwiches
Ingredients
4 Bread slices
½ Cup Hung Curd
¼ Cup Finely Chopped Cabbage
¼ Cup Finely Chopped Carrot
¼ Cup Finely Chopped Capsicum
¼ Teaspoon Chaat Masala
1 Tablespoon Chopped Coriander Leaves
3 Tablespoons Mint Chutney
Salt to taste
½ Tablespoon Ghee/Butter
Sandwich Masala to sprinkle - optional
Method

Mix hung curd, chopped vegetables , chaat masala and salt to make filling.

Filling is ready

Toast the bread slices with ghee/butter on a grill pan

only on one side.

Take a bread slices which side is toasted, apply the mint chutney generously.

Top it with the hung curd filling. 

Sprinkle Sandwich masala.

Close with another bread slice.

Grill it till crisp on a tawa or a sandwich grill. 

Healthy , quick,  easy Hung Curd Sandwich is ready for your  breakfast.

Labels : Healthy,  Breakfast, Brunch, Snacks, Hung curd, Vegetarian, Mint, Chutney,  Kids Delight, Serves Two

Instant Urad Dal Flour & Rava Medhu Vadas

These are instant and crispy, but not so spongy  like the freshly ground dal, but  taste delicious . Have these with this Sambar and you will enjoy this.   

The  key to make these light is to beat for at least 15 minutes with a electric hand beater till bubbles are seen and the batter is fluffy.

Makes 12 - 14 depending on the size
Ingredients
1 Cup Urad Dal Flour
4 Tablespoons Heaped Rice Flour
½ Cup Heaped Fine Rava /Semolina
½ Teaspoon Cumin seeds
1 Green Chilly -finely chopped
6 Curry Leaves - finely chopped
1 Tablespoon Finely Chopped Coriander leaves
1/2 Teaspoon Salt 
1½ Cups Water
Oil for deep frying

Method 

Whisk  the urad dal flour with water( adding a little water at a time) till light and fluffy  dough for at least 15 minutes with a electric hand beater. When light, fluffy add rice flour, whisk till thick  and bubbly batter is formed. 

Now add the rava/semolina and beat again for 2 - 3 minutes.  Let it rest for 10 minutes.  Then add chopped green chillies, cumin seeds, coriander and curry leaves. 

Mix well and again keep it aside.

Let this rest  till oil is getting hot in a kadai.

When the oil is hot make small vadas and fry on medium flame till crisp and golden.

Enjoy!!

We had it with Moong Dal Sambar for our Sunday lunch, a change from the routine food.  Enjoyed it thoroughly!!

Labels : South Indian, Instant Mixes, Snacks, Breakfast, Main course, Deep Fried, Vegan

Sabudana Vada - Vrat

Sabudana Vada is a vrat ka khana.  In major towns like Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Bhopal and Nagpur, it is available as street food and is widely eaten throughout the year. 

It is the dish of choice when an individual observes a "fast" during Shivratri, Navratri, or a similar Hindu religious occasion.  These crunchy vadas simply melt in the mouth… leaving the stomach full while the tongue craves for more.
Makes: 6  Vadas
Ingredients 
1 Cup Sabudana
2 Large Potatoes
3 Tablespoon Roasted Peanut - coarsely powdered
2 Tablespoon Lemon juice
1 Tablespoon Cumin seeds
1 Tablespoon Roasted Cumin powder
2 Tablespoon Coriander leaves - finely chopped
2 Green Chilies - finely chopped
1/2 Tablespoon Sugar powder
1 Teaspoon Salt /Sendhav Namak or as per taste
Ghee or Oil for frying
For the Green Coconut Chutney
A handful Each Coriander and Mint leaves
2-3 Green chillies (or as required)
1 ½ Teaspoon Lemon juice

Salt to taste/Sendhav Namak
1/2 Cup Packed Fresh Coconut - grated
1/2 Teaspoon Cumin seeds
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
Salt to taste
Method 
For The Green Coconut Chutney

Grind the coconut, coriander leaves, the mint leaves, green chilies, lemon juice and a little salt, sugar to a fine paste.  Remove in a bowl and refrigerate till needed.
For the VadasWash sabudana 3-4 times and soaked overnight in the water or for 4 -5 hours . Keep water level same as level of sabudana.

Boil and mash the potatoes. Add sabudana and rest of the ingredients. 

Combine everything with your hand.

Divide the mixture into equal portions. Shape each portion into a round and flatten slightly.

Deep-fry the vadas in hot oil until they are golden brown in colour and drain on absorbent paper.

Serve hot with green chutney or any sauce. Have these hot, when cold they are chewy.  

My Notes

Quantity of potatoes should be just sufficient to hold sabudana. 
Do not soak sabudana in too much of water. If its there, drain out excess water from sabudana before mixing with potatoes.

You can even add 2 teaspoons of rice flour while mixing for more crispiness.

Labels : Sabudana, Millets, Vrat, Snacks, Peanuts, Deep Fried, Mashed Potatoes, Vegan, Gluten free,  Street food

Mix Flour Shankarpali / Shankarpara

Shankarpali is crispy, crunch and yet very soft like fried biscuit. This snack typically made in India during Diwali or Christmas, actually a festival is incomplete without this snack. It is made in two forms savory and sweet. Today, I am sharing the sweet version.

Makes 400 Grams
Ingredients  
1 Cup Level All Purpose Flour
1/2 Cup Level Wheat flour
1/2 Cup Level Fine Semolina
2 Tablespoons Heaped Ghee - melted and cooled
Salt a pinch
Oil as required to deep fry

For the Sugar Syrup to knead for the dough
1/2 Cup Sugar
1/2 Cup Water - for sugar syrup

Method 
In a small sauce pan mix sugar and water, bring this a boil only till sugar melts. Immediately take off flame add salt and ghee.  This syrup does not require any thread consistency . Allow to cool. When cooled then add the semolina mix it and let it sit covered for 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes take the whole wheat and all purpose flours into a big kneading bowl.   Add the sugar semolina mix little by little , mix well with the help of your palms. knead the dough. The dough should be of medium consistency. Not very hard nor very soft. 

Make equal sized balls and roll into 1/4 cm thick circle. Cut them into square or diamond shape. 

Heat oil, when the oil if medium hot then put the cut squares in to it. Do not fry on high flame, because they will remain uncooked from the inside. 

Fry the pieces till light brown and crisp. Once all are fried, place them aside to cool. They become nice crispy on cooling. Once cooled store them in an airtight container.

Enjoy these sweet, crispy yet melt in mouth Shankarpali.

Labels :  Festival Sweets, Shankarpali, Christmas Sweet, Mix Flour, Snacks

Corn Cutlets

Healthy, crunchy and crisp melt in the mouth cutlets made with corn and mashed potatoes. Corn patties is also famous monsoon snack since they are freshly available at that time. These corn cutlets are really mouthwatering ,yummy instant snack, no onion or garlic, they can be served in kitty parties, birthdays, kids tiffin, high tea parties or as vrat food.  

Have already posted Sweet Corn Cheese Balls, today its time for Corn Cutlets. 

Ingredients 

1.1/2 Cup Packed Grated Boiled Potato
1 Cup Crushed Boiled Corn kernels
1 Cup Boiled Corn kernels
2 Green Chilies -  crushed
1/2 Teaspoon Ginger paste
2 Bread slices powdered
1/4 Teaspoon Roasted Cumin powder
1/2 Teaspoon Amchur powder
1/2 Teaspoon Chat masala
1/2 Teaspoon Sendhav Salt or to taste
2 Tablespoons Corn flour
2 Tablespoons Coriander leaves - chopped

Method
Cook corn either in microwave or cooker. In microwave for 8 to 10 mins or in the pressure cooker for 1 whistle. When cooker steam cools off, then remove corn kernels using a knife.

Reserve one cup corn kernels and the rest crush in a mixer slightly by pulsing it. No need to make a smooth paste we want a coarse paste.

Transfer to a mixing bowl . Add boiled & mashed potatoes , corns and rest of the ingredients. Mix everything well, taste for salt and spice and add if anything required. 

Divide the dough to small / medium equal size balls . Shape them into cutlets depending on your choice . You can do round flat disc /oval / heart shape / use any cookie cutter to give special shape . I have used an oval cookie cutter to them shape.

Heat 2 tablespoons oil in pan and shallow fry them till golden on both sides . 

Serve Corn Cutlets hot with ketchup / green chutney.

Labels : Corn Cutlets, Kebabs, Starters, Tiffin, Kids delight, Party pleasers, Savory Snacks, Snacks, Corn, Mashed Potatoes, Vegetarian, No Onion No Garlic, Vrat